Memeorandum

September 15, 2012

The Things Obama Believed...

Peering back through the mists of time, I noticed this Obama 2007 contribution to the national laugh track. Try to imagine that Obama once believed this, and try to hope that he no longer does. The context is an interview with the National Journal in which he makes the case for his own Presidency:

Let's start with his wisdom on foreign policy:

I also believe that I can be a more effective agent of change [than Hillary] in the
diplomatic sphere in repairing the damage that's been done by George
Bush, partly because I haven't fallen in to some of the conventional
thinking that Senator Clinton did, which led her to authorize the war in
Iraq and to at least give George Bush the benefit of the doubt when it
came to his approach on Iran.

Q: But you also mentioned you might change the image of the United States in the world in the talk that you gave tonight.

Obama: Well, and I believe that's true. I think that
the day I'm inaugurated, the world will look at America differently.
America will look at itself differently. And that's more than just
symbolic, that is political capital that can be used to make America
safer, and to restore its standing in the world.

And The Once provided some insight on fiscal stewardship:

You know, Senator Clinton says that she's concerned about Social
Security but is not willing to say how she would solve the Social
Security crisis, then I think voters aren't going to feel real confident
that this is a priority for her. And that's the kind of leadership I
think that the Democratic Party has to offer in the years to come.

Yeah, Obama has been leading on entitlement reform, all right. Leading over a cliff.

Doug Ross has a theory he fleshes out at his blog that Obama has shifted from supporting Saudi Arabia and opposing Iran to supporting Iran and opposing the Saudis. He has reasonable evidence for that and , remember, Iran is where ValJar was raised.

And Bob Owens , after removing the questionable polls from RC,P predicts a blowout for Romney.

Look on my mom jeans, ye Mighty, and despair! Not an undecided vote remainshttp://www.bob-owens.com/2012/09/look-on...
He built that: This projection suggests a Romney blowout of Obama in November. Three years of general malaise and a disastrous late summer and fall have set up the conditions for a perfect storm to sweep Barack Obama out of the White House in a humiliating loss

The Boston Globe tells you what RAS has been telling you, the momentum is with Republicans:

Across Florida on Wednesday, President Obama’s campaign scheduled 53 field events to register voters. Last weekend in Virginia, there were at least 78 such events — typical of drills in the past several months on behalf of the incumbent Democrat in the battleground states that are likely to decide the Nov. 6 election.

But a Globe analysis of voter registration data in swing states reveals scant evidence that the massive undertaking is yielding much fresh support for Obama.

In stark contrast to 2008, when a strong partisan tailwind propelled Democratic voter registration to record levels, this year Republican and independent gains are far outpacing those of Democrats.
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In Florida, Iowa, North Carolina, Colorado, and Nevada — tossup states where direct election-year comparisons could be drawn — the numbers are striking. Democratic rolls increased by only 39,580, less than one-tenth the amount at the comparable point in the 2008 election.

At the same time, GOP registration has jumped by 145,085, or more than double for the same time four years ago. Independent registration has shown an even stronger surge, to 229,500, almost three times the number at this point in 2008.

The ranks of unaffiliated voters have been growing and Republicans have been enjoying electoral success since Obama’s election. In the 2010 midterm elections, the GOP gained 63 seats and control of the House of Representatives. In 2009 and 2010, Republicans wrested seven governorships from Democrats in battleground states, all carried by Obama four years ago.

Some states dont have partisan registration so they could not make comparisons there.

My own personal observation of the Democrat Party booth at the Parker Co Peach Festival, was the Maytag repairman's office.

So are you saying that he was wrong in opposing the Iraq war? The war was a disaster but it had clearly become a disaster by the time he spoke out against it. In fact by the time he was elected to the senate in 2004 the war already lost.

Having said all of that, that doesnt make him bad. He is bad for horrible socialist policies at home.

I'm not sure about that. We have an electorate which has been indoctrinated to the point where the EPA's classification of air as a pollutant in order to tax it has been accepted and promoted by both parties. An electorate willing to allow a wholly regressive tax on air to be imposed in order to fund prog Fantasyland says more to me than the AA elevation of a totally incompetent buffoon to the office of President. We've had incompetent buffoons as President before but we've never taxed air.

I would note we're not alone in the air tax idiocy. It appears to be the logical culmination of 130 years of the progressive scientism which has brought the world to a state of bankruptcy.

It's a complicated calculus, like Daddy's formula on the other thread, he is in favor of more radical regimes, like Morsy, as opposed to the Sauds, but not their Ikwan retainers. One can look at the Libyan incursion, as clearing the deck for an opponent of the latter, as that piece about the Ambassador Aujali indicatess, one suggests the impetus behind this particular operation, is possibly based in Doha, which is the home of Quradawi, Sheik Rahman's co issuers of Jihad.

I don't understand why so many voters don't see or don't care that Obama is a malignant narcissist, since he provides daily proof. For example, at his post-Benghazi State Dept photo-op, BOzo assured the bereaved that he valued them because he spent time abroad as a kid. In Obama's little mind it's always about him...always.

On the 50%, don't underestimate just how much damage the Clinton education initiatives known then as outcomes based education did to minds that are in their late teens and 20s now. Hillary thought she could mine that but bo and Ayers had created monsters with her initiatives she was apparently unaware of.

The war was neither a disaster nor did we lose it.
The disaster was after the war attempting to impose a western style government on a barbarous 'nation' with ethnic, religious and political divisions thousands of years old all of which groups are motivated by and captive of a malignant theo-political ideology incompatible with our aims.

Until we remember that it is perfectly acceptable and usually preferable to wage war in order to destroy our enemies so that afterward they will fear and respect us, rather than as an opportunity to afterward establish another gigantic Big Brother/Big Sister program for out troops to carry out on people who think bombs are a fashion accessory we will continue to win the war and the lose the peace.

Of course the current genius believes neither. In Barry-world you undermine those who have kept their boot pressed to your enemy's throat so that your enemy obtains power and then you sit back in wide eyed wonder that your enemy is still your enemy except that now he owns tanks, planes and reactors.
This is known as the 'lose the war and the peace' strategy. Historically it is not particularly common for obvious reasons and has a zero percent success rate.

On the 50%, don't underestimate just how much damage the Clinton education initiatives known then as outcomes based education did to minds that are in their late teens and 20s now. Hillary thought she could mine that but bo and Ayers had created monsters with her initiatives she was apparently unaware of.

Can we finally put the "Hillary is really smart" meme to rest? She's at best a pedestrian thinker who tried to ram health care down the throats of an unwilling electorate, which led to the Repubs gaining control of Congress for the first time I could remember (until those subgeniuses eventually squandered everything). Other than that she enables a sexual predator who uses her as a doormat and has helped ruin our image in the world by completely botching her time as SoS under the JEF.

I actually would not be surprised if Obama's allegiance has morphed from SA to Iran. I would actually be more surprised if Obama was aware that his allegiance has changed, as I doubt his masters have told him yet.

LAT has an incredible pic of offensive to Islam "film" guy freely presenting himself for questioning, not arrested, we're told, despite the phalanx of deputies helping him into the police car. The WH must have enlisted the aid of Mayor "the ayes have it" to get that incredible pic surely designed for worldwide distribution.

What really scares me about the American electorate is, if you believe the NYTimes/CBS poll just out, Obama has moved ahead of Romney on the economy. This after the horrid, horrid jobs numbers just last week. If this is really true (and the poll like most recently oversamples Democrats) then the populace is just too ignorant for common sense to allow Romney to win.

It is somewhat heartening to me that in a Ras poll of American adults, 51 percent think it is likely that the Libyan government was involved in the murder of our personnel, and 30 percent think it is unlikely. Now, on the question of who planned and carried out this attack, I have no idea what the mix is among those inside the Lib government and those outside of it, and which of the various jihadist groups and their supporters in Middle Eastern governments were involved. However, I think it clearly was not protestors responding to a YouTube video that caused these murders. Despite the fog of MSM, over half of American adults appear to have enough info to recognize that the film meme is false.

Patterico, is being understably more sympathetic to Jan Crawford, because of her earlier work, but I don't give her a pass,
if she had actually made a point, that emphasized her own misgivings about Cairo.

Rupert must have sent a team to find and destroy the picture of him going into an orphanage with Sandusky because Drunk Before Noonan clearly views her future as being on Morning Joke as another "conservative voice".

Well,that's reassuring, TC, 'shirle, Carney could not have been serious' yesterday, As with Afghanistan, the mix of insurgent elements, lean more Salafi, with Qatar, probably replacing the Sauds, at least in the short term, but you need a scorecard to keep track of all the players

I don't follow Fedspeak at all. They may well wish to see inflation roar a bit in order to sustain the illusion that their econometric models have any relation to reality.

Controller Chiang provides a much cleaner view of the actual state of the economy than the scientistic gibberish backed by charts produced by the Fed. Skip the cheer leading on the first page of Chiang's report about revenue exceeding lowered forecasts and note the year over year 25% drop in sales tax revenue. California is still about 15% of the national GDP and that drop represents something slightly worse than what the word 'recession' entails.

TC:
Thank God most people see this fraudulent tale about the videotape for the pap that it is and has become.
Arresting the guy responsible gives the WH momentary breathing room but that will not last. How to explain the wave of protestors throughout the globe? They hate America and what we stand for and know our current prez will do nothing to stop them because his roots are their roots. It's embedded in his DNA. It's the reason he must go. Despite what Chris Matthews proclaims, He is not like us and does not share our American traditions.His values are counter-intutive to those we hold most dear.

A rage for paper money, for an abolition of debts, for an equal division of property, or for any other improper or wicked project, will be less apt to pervade the whole body of the Union than a particular member of it; in the same proportion as such a malady is more likely to taint a particular county or district, than an entire State.

In the extent and proper structure of the Union, therefore, we behold a republican remedy for the diseases most incident to republican government. And according to the degree of pleasure and pride we feel in being republicans, ought to be our zeal in cherishing the spirit and supporting the character of Federalists.

By republican, Madison means "republic," not a popular democracy as Democrats have tried to create and control.

-- A rage for paper money: In progress
-- an abolition of debts: In progress
-- an equal division of property: In progress
-- or for any other improper or wicked project: In progress

If ever there were an indictment of American schooling it is the omission of reading why our founders built the Constitution the way they did. Our schooling leaves us unprepared to recognize and defend against those who would bring our government down.

"In fact, what is 'disgusting and reprehensible' is that there are people in the world who think they are justified in attacking and killing people because someone hurt their feelings or offended their sensibilities. The US government should not act as a validator or enabler of this upside down worldview, which is exactly what the Obama administration has done repeatedly as they have responded to these abhorrent attacks against the United States.

"I have defended the Obama administration against the complaints from the right that they have run an 'apology tour' in the Middle East because I believe the US should admit when we make mistakes, such as the accidental burning of Korans. But what we shouldn't do is affirm the wrongheaded view that people should be protected from the free speech of others."

narciso- I ran into ICLEI this week as a featured aspect and I was not looking. And the ATL Regional Commission has as its featured speaker for its annual October breakfast the Brookings fellow who held the first regionalism conference in 1998. The one that became a book in 2000 that VP Al wrote the foreword for. The book that noted that Gamaliel was on the cutting edge of charitable foundations pushing this philosophy.

So no it's alive and well and being dismissive of it while so much is going on in its name does indicate a certain don't look here. Probably from Kurtz's book which would have been stronger if it had built on that angle. Since I already knew it his book was really helpful for me. It would be hard though to build actionable knowledge from it unless you came in as an expert on Bioregionalism or Ed or CRT or some other crucial element.

Broward popped up in something I read. I think its super in 90s was an early true believer county wide social engineering sort. To this day the Floridians do not seem to get NAEP is a huge values and attitudes survey on top of higher order, emotional, thinking. And different groups take different parts and it only tests a small fraction of 4th and 8th. Very easy to game. My son's class came in and pulled all the Algebra in 7th students who had done well in Duke TIP search and used that to reflect school. Right.

I have done what many consider to be the most hard-core, serious koran burning to date. I bookmarked the filthy damn thing with strips of raw bacon, and then I burned the satanic screed page by page after reading the demonic filth therein contained.

What many of you may not know is that very soon after my koran burning went viral, a group of Coptic Christians in Egypt translated it - every word - subtitled it in Arabic, and then posted that version on YouTube. How humbling. Please understand that there is a very good chance that some of the Copts involved in that effort have since been killed in the Christian genocide that has been raging in Egypt, and all throughout the musloid-infected world since early 2011.

While my original version on my YouTube channel has just under 200,000 views as of this writing, that is a pittance compared to the Arabic subtitled version, posted on the YouTube Channel "AnnThankYou", which has 665,000 views. Most of those views are of course in Egypt, the Middle East and North Africa. Therefore, if this nation is now under the Sharia, I DEMAND to be arrested for not only "blasphemy" but also as an accessory to murder as recommended by both Mike Barnicle and Donny Deutsch on MSNBC earlier this week.

Any time you bastards want to get real about this, I'm your flippin' huckleberry. Come and get me, and then WATCH WHAT HAPPENS.

"The latest Rasmussen Reports statewide telephone survey of Likely Voters in Ohio shows Brown with 49% of the vote to Mandel’s 41%. Three percent (3%) prefer some other candidate, and seven percent (7%) are undecided."

If he is from the Windy City he is a Gypsy. Transferring from North Central jurisdiction to becoming an enforcer in a SACS jurisdiction. Easy to do because same Atl based holding company owns both. No one is getting these major district jobs unless they are committed to Dewey's Reconstructionist vision for education.

SBW-thanks for that Madison quote. I brought him back in today's and had a U Va history prof write me to praise it when I first wrote it.

The Constitution is just something these clowns think they can override by fiat. Just control the flow of information. At its source through schools and colleges and through the media to influence the adults who got away.

JEF is definitely on board with the ISlamists to ban blasphemy against the Prophet worlwide. Our lefty friends really haven't thought through the danger of JEF's alien anti-american world view. He demands that Congress has the power to force individuals to buy a product (how about a law requiring all able bodied adults to buy a 9mm semiauto pistol?) he rejects the 1st amendment right of expression -- especially political expression -- when he doesn't like the content. When Bam is bounced in Nov we will have done a favor to our lefty friends, his anti-americanism is as big a threat to them as it is to us.

Nothing like backstabber John Weaver, captain of the HMS Huntsman, to prove that you're over the target.

AQAP apprently approves of the Stevens hit, since that's what they were going for, when
when they attacked the embassy in Sanaa, back in 2008, thar was their debut, from the fellow, who is now reliving that scene
from 'Casino Royale' for an eternity

" Obama Is Wrong… Mideast Protests Were Planned Before YouTube Video Ever Made the Airwaves (Video)

The Muslim protests were planned back in August – before the film was ever released. The protest in Cairo was organized by the terror group, Jamaa Islamiya. USA Today reported:

The protest was planned by Salafists well before news circulated of an objectionable video ridiculing Islam’s prophet, Mohammed, said Eric Trager, an expert at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

The protest outside the U.S. Embassy in Cairo was announced Aug. 30 by Jamaa Islamiya, a State Department-designated terrorist group, to protest the ongoing imprisonment of its spiritual leader, Sheikh Omar abdel Rahman. He is serving a life sentence in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center.

When the video started circulating, Nader Bakkar, the spokesman for the Egyptian Salafist Noor party, which holds about 25% of the seats in parliament, called on people to go to the embassy. He also called on non-Islamist soccer hooligans, known as Ultras, to join the protest.

On Monday, the brother of al-Qaeda leader Ayman al Zawahiri, Mohamed al Zawahiri, tweeted that people should go to the embassy and “defend the prophet,” Trager said.

Zawahiri justified al-Qaeda’s 9/11 attacks in an interview with Al Jazeera last month.

The first clip of “Innocence of Muslims” was shown on Al-Nas TV, an Egyptian Islamist television station, on September 8, 2012."

I was referring to Said Al Shihri in that last bit, I don't know who has taken his slot in AQAP, probably Al Rubboush, another
wayward shepherd, released from Gitmo, thanks to the Levick/Seton Hall whitewash

The JEF and Pinhead Troika must be desperate when they reveal themselves to everybody as transparent grifters with an insatiable appetite for other peoples' money. Rove identified their ridiculous burn rate early on and obviously nothing has changed in that. Not sure what their end game was but it obviously was something unrealistic even with the MFM in the tank for them.

Any of y'all living in a blue hell should have a yard sale for Obama. Ask exorbitant prices and let your lefty neighbors buy that stuff (it's for the good of the country- surely you want to give your fair share - Bill C got $3 bucks for used undies from Goodwill). Then buy yourself a gun with the proceeds to protect yourself from these fools.

I spoke with a well-placed journalist last night whose sources describe the situation at the State Department in one word: “Chaos.” The working assumption is that several American embassies may have been penetrated, or are vulnerable to attack, because so many of them rely on local residents for staff needs at the embassy, and as such may be in a position to breach security if they have been recruited by Al Qaida. Moreover, the full story of the attack on the Benghazi consulate is much worse than we have been told (except by the Independent newspaper report John and I linked to here on Thursday).

The consulate in Benghazi was an interim facility, with only a standard door lock for security, and worse, Ambassador Stevens was traveling with only a light security detail, rather than in the heavily armed convoys our diplomats in the region usually employ. The attack on the Benghazi was no mere target of opportunity spurred by reaction to the “Innocence of Muslims” film; the film is just a pretext. The killing of Amb. Stevens was a premeditated hit, planned and carried out as retaliation for the recent drone strike that killed the number two Al Qaida operative in Afghanistan recently. The vulnerability of Stevens at the Benghazi compound was scouted out carefully. All the other embassy protest activity is just covering theater.

DoT, It's now fairly obvious Stevens was gay and some are suggesting that he was sodomized before and after he was killed because of that.
I do not know if he was. He was missing for a long time and no stories about the timing of the attack and his death are consistent or complete.
OTOH I think whether he was or not such reports have less to do with his sexual activity and more to do with humiliating him in arab eyes.

The film maker who is being hounded by investigators, is also a $1 million donor to Obama.

Circles within circles.

Posted by: centralcal | September 15, 2012 at 11:57 AM

he is also a fed informer

Nakoula, 55, was arrested in June 2009 for his role in a check-kiting ring that stole nearly $800,000 from six financial institutions by using stolen Social Security numbers and identities. Nakoula was named in a six-count felony indictment accusing him and unnamed “co-schemers” of perpetrating the bank fraud.

Denied bail, Nakoula, a married father of three, was locked up at the Metropolitan Detention Center in L.A. when he began cooperating with Justice Department lawyers and federal agents. During a series of debriefing sessions, Nakoula provided investigators with a detailed account of the fraud operation and fingered the man who allegedly headed the operation, according to comments made by his lawyer at sentencing...

Local LA CBS "reporter" live in front of house of anti-muslim "film" guy as he's led away by deputies. He finishes his report by turning and looking directly at house as he provides the helpful-to-jihadis news that although the filmmaker won't be returning to his house following his interrogation, his family still plans to be there, i.e. available for annihilation.